From Wild Care Oklahoma

Today, we are highlighting a simple but common treatment we use in our wildlife veterinary clinic-distractions tabs!

Often when raptors have a bone fracture in their wing, we place wing wraps to immobilize the bone while it heals. Sometimes our patients are not appreciative of their treatments, and they will try their best to get the wraps off. Barred owls and great-horned owls are the biggest offenders. In these cases, we add extra tape as "distraction tabs" for them to pull on instead of their actual wrap. This extends the integrity of the wrap.

You can see in these tabs on this barred owl that is in care for a metacarpal fracture and the great-horned owl caught in the act of pulling on his tabs